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American Progress
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Dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through ideas and action.
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The federal government spent about $700 million on debt collection in 2017 for fewer than 7 million borrowers in default, almost the same amount it spent on loan servicing for more than 33 million people paying down their debt. wapo.st/2H9OIGz
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The HHS ruling leans heavily on the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision, expressing that nondiscrimination laws are a “substantial burden” on religious freedom. bit.ly/2H6aBGS
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U.S. policy is also supposed to encourage training of Saudis as mechanics and in other skilled jobs so the country can diversify its workforce. But it hasn’t worked out that way. bit.ly/2U2F3Fo
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.@Katulis: What happened on North Korea is a textbook case of what not to do. wapo.st/2BZmJ97
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The presence of a gun where domestic violence has occurred makes it five times more likely that a woman will die. bit.ly/2EFPs4N
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.@CAPEarlyEd's Neil Campbell: "Rather than giving away billions more to corporations... we should be investing in our public schools to pay our teachers like the professionals they are and prepare students for success in college, career and life." bit.ly/2EEQMoh
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American Progress
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Check back next week for more awesome women to follow! 💪🏻💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿
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American Progress
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Next up for our #WomensHistoryMonth #FollowFriday is CAP's press team! @dgibber123 @allisonmpreiss @juliamcusick @RayRo77 @daniellemeowias and @missrrosenberg
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American Progress
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We've got to kick off with a #FollowFriday for @CAPWomen's @drtaylor09! Dr. Taylor is an expert on domestic and international women’s health, reproductive rights, and reproductive justice. #WomensHistoryMonth
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American Progress
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It’s #WomensHistoryMonth and we’re taking the pledge to #RetweetWomen! On that note, a big #FollowFriday thread (we'll add more every Friday in March) of all the women who drive CAP forward on issues across the board👇
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American Progress
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At least nine infants younger than a year old, including one who is just 5 months old, are being held in ICE custody at a rural Texas detention center without care that's legally required. cbsn.ws/2H9ezhZ
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American Progress
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“There is potential to change the conversation about criminal justice in American society by actually starting to have it.”
Candice Jones (@ccjones235), president and CEO of @PublicWelfare on the long game in criminal justice reform: bit.ly/2EDKnKh
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Smart On Crime
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The rapid rise of electronic monitoring has correlated with the advancement of GPS technology and privatization in the #CJ system. We can't replace prison cells with digital prisons. #SmartOnCrimeStats pic.twitter.com/0gvHEMDerq
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American Progress
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The planned expansion of the policy — called Migration Protection Protocols — represents the latest administration’s latest attempt to institute sweeping changes to dissuade asylum-seekers from crossing the border and entering the country. bit.ly/2VxOxch
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.@RebeccaCokley: The death of disabled people at the hands of loved ones is not a “mercy killing”-it’s a hate crime. It’s filicide. bit.ly/2BZeV7n
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CAP NationalSecurity
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China's Xi is ramping up his ambitions to remake the global order, calling for Beijing to "lead the reform of the global governance system."
Read @amprog's report on what this Chinese vision for the international order entails.
americanprogress.org/issues/securit…
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American Progress
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"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." — Audre Lorde
#WomensHistoryMonth bit.ly/2Vts3sI
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Emily Gee
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Mark your calendars: the House Antitrust Subcommittee has a hearing next Thursday on Exploring the Effects of Consolidation and Anticompetitive Conduct in Health Care Markets judiciary.house.gov/legislation/he…
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American Progress
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Just a reminder 🙃
There are at least three major legal issues with Trump’s plan to use the military to build his wall.
First, as a factual matter, there is no emergency allowing for him to utilize the military in this manner. bit.ly/2H1vy7A
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Phillip Atiba Goff
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Just a reminder, as we kick off women’s history month, that you should be celebrating Black women for the second straight month.
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